Big Apple Comic Con this weekend!

The dog is a Weimaraner, and Lela's the only one who can say it. According to Wikipedia, the color of its fur also led to the nickname, "The Grey Ghost", which I'm down with. Because it's easier to say than Murmur ner mur.

We're at Big Apple Comic Con this weekend! We're over at Table 710 on the Main Floor, around the outside of the room - please come say hello! We'll have books and t-shirts - CMYcat and Hokusai tees - as well as prints and a few other things, including a vinyl Maw figurine! Here's a handy map:

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First of all, thanks for your amazing comic, and for making an effort to update quickly. Second, you're lucky I'm a Colombian Ananth, otherwise I would definitively see you at the comic-con and fight you over Yuko in a stare contest (I'm not a versatile man).

But I can't spell it.
Also, weimeraners are stupid dogs :| My friend has a weimeraner, and he's a total moron. She won't even admit that it's hers; she calls it her husband's dog. And he's not a special case. He's NORMAL.
I don't like weimeraners. They're sweet, but stupid.

Just think of the Weimar republic, which tried (and failed) to establish a democratic rule of law in Germany from 1919 to 1933. In 1933 Adolf Hitler and his nazis trampled the Weimar constitution and went on to exterminate the jews in Germany and in other areas invaded by Germany, like the Ukraine, which Samuel Sagan had already left in order to come to the USA and become the father of Carl Sagan.

I was just thinking about this, as I've been reading a German book lately. "W"s in German are pronounced as "V"s, so it whould be Vie-mer-an-ur.
I personally don't get how people have trouble pronouncing words after hearing them. If you hear it, you know how it sounds, so how do you struggle with it?
Still, this page is excellent and adorable.

How is this difficult?
I looked it up.
Wikipedia uses "V"
Oxford American dictionary uses "W" as the primary, but "V" as secondary.
Oxford English uses "V" as the primary, with "W" as a secondary.
Apparently it's a waste of Merriam-Webster's College Desk edition's time.

You're all right, and therefore all very, very wrong for fighting about it instead of looking it up and bringing documented facts to the table. Good day.

Well, nice for you you looked up but I am german and I guess the ones who posted before me are also german, so we should know better how that german city is pronounced, right? weimar is pronunced like why-mar...you should believe the native speakers here ;)

Lord no. The native speakers of a language are the worst possible representatives of it, as mind-boggling as that sounds. I refuse to believe that what the entire southern United States speaks is really English at all.

The problem stems from the fact that "natural" speakers often incorporate a lot of colloquialisms into their speech, it invariably becomes something other than what's academically true.

Which raises questions about whether a language is what it's so-called "proper" form is, or if it's what the average person uses to communicate, but to go there, then we'd have to take these rules as subjective.

And therefore the argument is still invalid, and still a waste of time.

:D We have one of those!
Why-Mar-Ann-Ur.
They're supposed to be super-smart, but they're really ditzy and nervous around everything.
When ours was a puppy, we were walking her across the street when we realized--mid crosswalk--that she had all four brakes on. Turns out there was a PARKED motorcycle on the other side that was just "TOO SCAWWY D:" to walk towards.

My mom always calls them 'Wegman dogs'. She had one for a while, named Grendel. He was a good dog, but oh so nervous. Everything was dangerous, everything needed barking at. Why couldn't we poor humans UNDERSTAND?

Well, they're definitely not stupid, but they are a high energy breed which can make them very nervous in some situations. I work in a vet's office, so if a breed is going to have nervous tendencies, I'm going to see it, and all of the weimaraners I've met have been insanely nervous (and they bark in such painful ways...owie).
They're very sweet though.

I have a Weimaraner, & it kills me when people say they're stupid or destructively energetic. -_-x My dog is a rescue, who was thrown away because whoever bought her couldn't handle a large breed of dog with high energy & high intelligence.

Weimaraners were bred to run ahead of the hunter & make their own decisions when hunting prey. That intellect is often what gets them in trouble when their owners don't provide them an outlet. It can also lead to neuroticism, which can be misdiagnosed as "the dog is acting dumb again, why won't it shut up/quit chewing the shoes/insert other annoying behavior here?"

My dog is a well-behaved, well-trained animal, because I work hard with her to keep her balanced & happy.

My sister is part of a Weimaraner rescue group, & has 2 big males herself. I got Hazel from her after she'd given a dog to every neighbor within a 15-mile radius, lol.

About the mispronunciation thing, I have the same problem with people saying Weemaranger or other hilariously wrong pronunciations. So, I taught Hazel a trick. If I say, "Hazel, what breed are you?", she goes, "Wah-mah-rah-naaa" ^___^ After that, nobody mispronounces it.

I might as well finally comment. Btw, I'm the fluffy, overheating, Alyx Vance that popped by. I really should pay attention to what you write UNDER the comic more often. Sure I read it, but I didn't connect the dots when I saw "ComicCon" and my boyfriend said "Hey, we're going to ComicCon tomorrow" (we live in the area). When I saw you guys I was like "Oh, hey, I'm going to go sound like a silly fangirl now.". Still, the shirt is awesome, the fabric is very comfortable and I am quite impressed with the print quality. :3 Thanks for being friendly guys!

My friend Paul introduced this to me in Spanish class on his Nook (which almost got me in-trouble because I laughed so hard and had to conceal it against my hand). I had been reading it non stop ever since. I love it!

It's not ridiculous when any textbook on learning German or German dictionary has a pronunciation guide that doesn't give an alternate pronunciation of "w". Native speakers are often the most lax with rules on pronunciation and grammar, because they learn the language less formally.

Even if people say it with a "w" sound, the formal pronunciation of "w" is a "v" sound; if I had to take a guess why locals are pronouncing it as "w", I'd say that at some point, there was a cultural influx of people who wouldn't accept w=v, and instead constantly corrected the locals on how to pronounce their own words, until it finally stuck.

well, you say natives are lax with pronunciation but language is not only a set of rules... that the actual use of language can differ from the set of rules of a language is a common thing in any language... and the native speakers are the ones whose language use have influence on the change of language itself. especially when it comes to names the set of rules does not matter at all. there are also city names in the english language where the actual pronunciation has nothing to do with the set of rules... just think about worcester, it is not pronounced as you would usually pronounce it just because you know the set of rules of english.... the weimarer republic is a topic dealt so often in germany that no one who is german can pronounce it wrong. you learn about it in 7th grade, it comes up in 9th grade and in 12th grade. also a lot of documentaries deal with it and it is always pronounced the same. you cannot miss that topic in germany. so we germans know how that city is pronounced, everyone here says it the same way. even if it does not match the set of rules, that does not matter because the actual use of language has made weimar into why-mar

So I read this a while back & yesterday I actually met one of those dogs! He was less than a year old, huge, and totally nuts! I couldn't say the name either, though I asked them to repeat it about a million times. The first thing I thought of when I heard the name was this post though :P